Nursing picket lines to expand across B.C. as bargaining reaches ‘impasse’

More nurses are expected to join the picket lines outside hospitals across British Columbia in the coming weeks, as negotiations have once again reached an “impasse,” the B.C. Nurses’ Union announced on Thursday, July 9.
Picket lines were established at Vancouver General Hospital on Tuesday, July 7, and new lines began forming outside Surrey Memorial Hospital and the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre in Surrey early on Thursday, July 9.
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